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As you discuss the ideas found in this book with your friends, you'll be able to spot the old minds easily. They're the ones who are always "playing the devil's advocate," always proposing and concentrating on difficulties, always nailing the progress of your dialogue down to problems. Focus instead on what you want to happen and how to make it happen, rather than on all the things that might keep it from happening. Beyond Civilization

New book from Daniel Quinn! If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways "One of the most troublesome questions I've been asked--and it's been asked hundreds of times--is: 'Where do these strange ideas of yours come from?' In the beginning, I thought it was just the usual where-do-you-get-your-ideas? question that all authors receive. My readers soon set me straight. Read more ... Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2 Excerpt 3

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Now what? What do *I* do now?!

The question people ask most (in one form or another) is "what to do?" Or put another way, "Where do I go from here? Besides telling other people, what more can I do to save the world?" So many different ways we hear the cries. They all scream, "What NEXT? What more can I do?!"

Since this is, by far, THE MOST Frequently Asked Question of Daniel and others that have become the message (B), Daniel has worked very hard to provide some advice by answering this question many times in many different ways. Here are 29 ways the question has been asked and Daniel's replies...this will get you started--where will you go from here?

1. In this day and age it's hard for the young generation. I my self am 17 an...
   
2. You say the only thing we can do to save the world is to change our way of...
   
3. . . I know I'm only 18, but . . .
   
4. I must admit that I was greatly disappointed with Beyond Civilization. Perh...
   
5. I agree, the frog is dead. But now what? Having a new mind alone is not eno...
   
6. It seems to be that there is only choice between the Takers and the Leaver...
   
7. On the ish site the other day, a quote was displayed was about tribal peopl...
   
8. Say you have a group of people who have pooled their resources together to...
   
9. On page 192 of My Ishmael you say "This is how you must differ from revolut...
   
10. While thinking about possible careers, I've examined my skills, desires, a...
    
11. Your books have touched me and my life in ways that are unimaginable and in...
    
12. I'm just finishing my work toward a degree, and, having read your books, I...
    
13. I feel like I've been lulled back to sleep, and I'm absolutely terrified. M...
    
14. How do we become Leavers?
    
15. At 24, I'm terrified of losing my idealism, my excitement and passion for l...
    
16. Your novel Ishmael leaves me wondering how, as an individual, can I...
    
17. Recent postings in the guestbook have asserted that one has to be comfortab...
    
18. One career option I was considering was to work in virology, helping to fin...
    
19. I hope to make the issues of your work apparent to others but admit to a se...
    
20. I am a Junior majoring in History and was assigned Ishmael as reading for m...
    
21. As I think about the possibility of starting a tribal business, I get distr...
    
22. I don't want to end like Jeffrey. I want to have a happy, fulfilling life...
    
23. I want to find my way, but I don't believe that I will. I feel very much l...
    
24. I want to find out about more places like Sudbury Valley and more people li...
    
25. Even if we live tribally (in the sense you use the word in Beyond Civilizat...
    
26. It seems to me that what you're advocating in BEYOND CIVILIZATION is that p...
    
27. Do we never resort to battle? I mean, if the last two Ibex are standing in...
    
28. I'm finishing my graduate work in educational leadership. I've always felt...
    
29. What exactly should I do to help encourage your philosophy?
    
30. For almost all my life I've wanted no other career than teaching, but after...
    
31. I am in college and I am struggling quite a bit. I'm having trouble findin...